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  • The Better Self?: Germaine Greer and 'The Female Eunuch' The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Louis Nowra | The Monthly Essays | March 2010 | Society & Culture
    I was the first person in my family to go to university. I had a chip on my shoulder about having been brought up on a Housing Commission estate while my fellow students belonged to the middle class. One day when I was loading trucks to earn money, I had to pick up goods from a spinning-yarn...

  • The Whirling Dervish: Tony Abbott

    Louis Nowra | The Monthly Essays | February 2010 | Politics
    The two days I spent in emergency, I whiled away my time trying to block my ears to the cries of angry injured drunks and moaning victims, and listening to conversations from the other curtained-off beds. A nurse came in to tend to a fellow opposite my cubicle. A news item about Abbott must have...

  • Nowhere Near Hollywood (preview): Australian Film

    Louis Nowra | Film
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  • Nowhere Near Hollywood: Australian Film

    Louis Nowra | The Monthly Essays | Film | Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
    I set out to watch most of the Australian films released this year because I wanted to grasp the condition of our industry. On a practical level, it was often hard to find these films; they seldom stayed in the cinema long enough. I became used to tracking them to small independent cinemas that,...

  • 'Manhood for Amateurs' by Michael Chabon: Fourth Estate, 400pp; $32.99

    Louis Nowra | Arts & Letters | November 2009 | Society & Culture | Noted
    There’s something of the eternal kid about Michael Chabon. Whereas other serious writers have outgrown Marvel comics, Star Trek and the rock songs of their youth, Chabon’s nostalgic sensibility is still deeply rooted in popular culture. If he mentions Burroughs, it’s more likely he’s referring to...

  • "Barley Patch" by Gerald Murnane: Giramondo Publishing, 320pp; $27.95

    Louis Nowra | October 2009 | Society & Culture | Noted
    There are times at the end of an author’s career when a book review is almost a redundant exercise. This holds equally true for bestselling writers – like Bryce Courtenay – or coterie authors whose fans will buy anything they publish no matter what the quality. Like many a Nabokov aficionado, I...

  • More Than Picong: Patrick French’s ‘The World Is What It Is’ The Online Monthly - subscriber only access

    Louis Nowra | Books | July 2008
    Whenever I read Proust's magnificent In Search of Lost Time I have to try hard to forget that the author liked to masturbate while watching rats being tortured to death. There are parts of Ulysses where I cannot but help recall Joyce's scatological letters to his wife. Faulkner's cruelty towards...

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